[Freeipa-users] unhappy replication?

[Kat]

On 9/9/14 3:18 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 09/09/2014 12:55 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>> On 09/09/2014 10:41 AM, Kat wrote:
>>> The problem I see is simple - not being able to add additional 
>>> replicas after the migration?
>>
>> What I meant to say is - Is the workaround of setting replication 
>> first, then doing migration, acceptable?
>>
>>>
>>> On 9/9/14 9:24 AM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>>>> On 09/09/2014 10:12 AM, Kat wrote:
>>>>> Well - here is the problem and solution:
>>>>>
>>>>> Fails every time:
>>>>>
>>>>> Install master, enable migration, migrate existing LDAP 
>>>>> config/users, setup replication, fails.
>>>>>
>>>>> Works every time:
>>>>>
>>>>> Install master, setup replication, enable migration, migrate 
>>>>> existing LDAP config/users, works perfectly.
>>>>>
>>>>> So -- a problem with migration settings??
>>>>
>>>> Could be.  Is it a problem if the only way you can successfully set 
>>>> things up is to do the latter procedure?
>>>
>>
> Would be nice to test this scenario at some point and reproduce it.
> I do not think the workaround is acceptable. One should be able to add 
> the replicas after migration.
> Is this a timing issue? I mean can you add replica next day for 
> example or never?
> If you never can add a replica after migration it is a problem and we 
> should fix it. If you can't just for s short period of time then we 
> should probably file a ticket and process it later.
>
Sadly - no - I waited 24 hours after the migration from OpenLDAP to IPA 
and still could not do it.

Going to try something else. Since the bug still exists migrating to 4.x 
directly - going to migrate to 3.3.5, THEN upgrade to 4.0.1 and then try 
the replica addition. I will let you know what happens.

~K